Our Favorite Film Adaptations

We’ve all heard it before: “Books are always better than the films they’re based on.” The book vs film debate is likely never to be resolved. From the British Vivien Leigh taking on the role of the very southern Scarlett O’Hara to Will Smith portraying a completely different version of Robert Neville in I Am Legend, bibliophiles tend to prefer books to films. But sometimes, every once in awhile, Hollywood gets it right. Today we’re chatting about the best film adaptations based on some of our favorite books.

What do you think, LitStackers? Did we get it right? We want to hear from you.

Had I had even the smallest amount of free time this week, I would have participated in this post with "Deathly Hallows Part2." Perhaps it's geeky and a bit dorky to say, but I consider that movie to the one of the best I've ever seen and certainly the best movie I've seen in ten years. It was very true to the novel.

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On this day, December 19, in 1975, fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. His first published novel, Elantris, and his later Mistborn trilogy (now six books and counting) are unique in their portrayal of the incorporation of magic in the lives of his characters. In 2007 he was named by the widow of Robert Jordan to finish the Wheel of Time epic fantasy series; the final volume, A Memory of Light, was published in 2013. In 2010 his 10-book The Stormlight Archive series opened with The Way of Kings, followed by 2014’s Words of Radiance and 2017’s Oathbringer. He also contributes to the weekly
podcast, “Writing Excuses”, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. Today he turns 43.